Lab Track: Virus

Icelandic musical oddity Björk recently dove headfirst into the world of science with her musical project Biophilia, consisting of an album, an app, and a series of live performances. The songs featured all deal with some aspect of science — Dark Matter, Moon, and Crystalline are but a few of the titles.

Even more recently, she teamed up with everyone’s favorite nature show narrator, David Attenborough, to create a documentary about the evolution and science of music and its relationship with us and the natural world. Titled The Nature of Music, the program just aired on the BBC’s Channel 4 but has yet to make its way to other countries. (Have you seen it? Let us know how it was in the comments!)

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Ashley Hamer (aka Smashley) is a saxophonist and writer living in Chicago, where she performs regularly with the funk band FuzZz and jazz ensemble Big Band Boom. She also does standup comedy, sort of, sometimes. Her tenor saxophone's name is Ladybird.